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Paintings Make a Wall /
The new painting, Space Buffer, hanging in the living room so I can study it some more.
Lila, Our Beautiful Maine Coon /
Space Buffer /
Here it is, my first painting of 2021. Still thinking about the future: space travel, physics, quantum theories, multiple time lines, first contact, the singularity. If I could have a superpower, then I would choose teleportation. Wouldn’t that be sublime? If we can imagine it, can we create it? Does it already exist?
Space Buffer, 2021
Finally Finished /
I am pleased with how this painting turned out. The long period of thinking over what was bothering me about it paid off. Here is the new version. Thank you for visiting the site. Be sure to check out the shop and galleries.
L' enchevêtrement, 2020
30”x24”
Progress & Process /
I’ve been working on a new painting, but it has been a slow process. Here are a couple details of my progress. We’re all in process, aren’t we? It’s hard to live in transition. I hope your new projects are progressing along.
One conclusion I’ve come to is that the pandemic and current political climate are not conducive to creativity, but one of my favorite poets (Ron Padgett) once basically said that you have to try and be creative in those moments when you don’t feel inspired.
No Peace of Mind /
After finishing this piece, I hung it on the wall in the living room so that I could live with it for a while. I knew that I still wasn’t happy with the flatness of the blue triangular areas. Today, I went back into the painting in an effort to deal with that flatness. I think that I like the result, so I will hang it in the living room again where I can study it when I’m actually trying to relax, haha.
before
after
Today, I Teach, by Dylan Miner /
I needed a boost tonight and I turned to poetry.
"Today, I Teach" is a powerful poem written by Michigan State University Director of American Indian and Indigenous studies, Dylan Miner. I wanted to share this piece with the community because making this video and spending some time with it tonight has made me feel better. I post this with Dylan's permission.
Be well, poetry peops.
Dylan AT Miner (b. 1976) is an artist, activist, and scholar. He is currently Director of American Indian and Indigenous Studies, as well as Associate Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. Miner sits on the board of the Michigan Indian Education Council and is a founding member of the Justseeds artists collective. He holds a PhD in Arts of the Américas from The University of New Mexico and has published more than sixty journal articles, book chapters, critical essays, and encyclopedia entries. In 2010, he was awarded an Artist Leadership Fellowship from the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Miner has been featured in more than two dozen solo exhibitions. He has been artist-in-residence or visiting artist at institutions such as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, École supérieure des beaux-arts in Nantes, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Rabbit Island, Santa Fe Art Institute, and numerous universities, art schools, and low-residency MFA programs. His book Creating Aztlán: Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island was published in 2014 by the University of Arizona Press.
